Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baby, and--dad-burned if I want any more breakfast!" It is in this connection that I wish to rebuke the short-sighted ones responsible for the censorship and padlocking. This last edition of the Lampoon was an expert slam at a magazine that dishes up weak-kneed sex pictures, pointless, time-wasting fiction, amid a pseudo-highbrow atmosphere, at 50 cents per dose, instead of, as was pointed out, the price of the tabloid with the same stuff...
...sex lines were generally sharper than age lines. For loss of the left arm, young women wanted $1,000,000, young men $1,000,000,000. Men said they would be willing to fall into a trance during the month of October every year for $2,000,000 or become insane every July for $95,000,000. Women wanted $200,000 for an October trance, $4,500,000 for July madness. For $10,000,000 each, men would spend their lives in a Manhattan apartment. Women wanted $62,500,000. To abandon all hope of life after death...
Adapted by John Dos Passos from a novel by Pierre Louys, filmed in Director von Sternberg's best darkly sardonic style, The Devil Is a Woman is a slow, rococo anecdote about the vicious sex-life of a Spanish cafe dancer (Dietrich) and the middle-aged army officer (Lionel Atwill) whose career is shattered by his morbid passion for her. Infinitely more adult in its approach to human values than such a picture as The Scoundrel (see above), this effort by one of Hollywood's most famed directors is correspondingly more childish in its manner. After winding through...
...practices neuropsychiatry in Washington. He dissected 1,400 lunatics after their deaths to find out what effects, if any, their endocrine glands may have had upon their distorted personalities. He also studied the personalities of several hundred normal characters who suffered from hormonal disturbances of the pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, sex glands, etc. After all that work Dr. Freeman concluded that hormones have a preponderant role in the total energy output of an individual as well as in the harmonious functioning of his nervous system. He found little evidence that a person's endocrine glands determine the type...
Readers who think the modern novel is sex-ridden might find Ripeness Is All a case in point. But they would be hard put to it to raise a respectable objection to this solemnly hilarious japery. Even those who do not like English novels because they consider the English an annoyingly asinine race will find Author Linklater's soothing. Like many a sourly smiling Scotsman, he considers the Sassenachs a comic spectacle, fit subject for a farce...